British citizens Aqsa Mahmood and Tareena Shakil both left the UK to join ISIS

“Citizenship of the UK is not an absolute right”

Richard Walton, former counterterrorism boss at Scotland Yard

Government ministers slapped 72 “deprivation orders” on Brits between 2011 and 2015 because of their risk to the country.

But the number of risky individuals who can keep their British passport is likely to be higher, as the measures can only be taken against a person with dual nationality.

This leaves authorities with a much tougher job on their hands to stop British-born terrorists like Salman Abedi – who slaughtered 23 music fans at Manchester Arena in May – because the move cannot leave a person without a home nation.

Western Jihadi brides

A photo report on the British woman who left the UK to fly to Syria, and join the Islamic State.

1 / 10

Tim Stewart News Limited

Sally Jones, who calls herself Sakinah Hussain. She is married to British jihadist fighter in Syria Junaid Hussain. In 2013 she left the UK to join the Islamic State.

According to the Sunday Times, 35 more extremists had their citizenship stripped in 2016 as well as 15 more from January to March this year.

Security sources all told the newspaper how another 30 may have had their passports voided.

A security source told the Sunday Times: “There’s an awful lot of people we have found who will never be coming home again.